Madea Goes To Mordor: Amazon's "LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POWER" Celebrates The Great Replacement Coming To Middle-Earth
Looks like darkness is already spreading across Middle-earth…
Amazon’s Lord of the Rings: The Ring of Power will be the streaming services version of Cutthroat Island, The Adventures of Pluto Nash, and Battlefield Earth on steroids.
A bomb of epic proportions.
Cherish Peter Jackson’s trilogy that came out in 2001 – 2003, for The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and Return of the King represent the pinnacle of western cinema.
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Amazon succeeds with "The Grand Tour" where the BBC fails with "Top Gear" post-Jezza, Hamster & Captain Slow. Hulu with their adaptation of "The Handmaid's Tale": it's the first streamed series to receive Emmy awards. "Star Trek: Picard" is one of CBS's most popular online series: so much so, they greenlit a 2nd. No doubt Netflix will commission more anime series for them after "BNA: Brand New Animal".
Amazon are now so big, they could bring on board James Cameron to make a series just for them, give him a blank cheque and say 'Make what you want': they know it'll be good. The kind of effects these days: as "Terminator II" proved; also, "Jurassic Park". The animated adaptation by Ralph Bakshi backed up the argument of those who said that "Lord of the Rings" was unfilmable. Until Peter Jackson & CGI. What's possible since then: certainly screenplay & casting-wise, post-"Game of Thrones".
Your 'argument': a bomb of epic proportions.
What's this guy upset about? Some black people got cast as hobbits or something? My impression was that brown-skinned hobbits would be about right for the setting. The humans ought to be white, but that's only because in the book the blacks and Asians were fighting for Mordor. But, if they want to make their show less racist than the source material, I'm not going to complain.
LOtR has many facets, among which are anti-racism and anti-nationalism facets, though the anti-racism part was kind of wrongheaded garbage due to being a product of its times and is also generally lost on modern audiences. So, why not play up that part of it and reinterpret it through a more modern lens? We reinterpret classic works all the time, and this would be within the spirit of JRR Tolkien’s original intent. Shakespeare probably gets the most of it. It annoys the purists, and doesn’t always work, but that’s how you know it’s hit the big leagues. And if this one bombs, there’s still the Peter Jackson version, plus any future versions which don’t bomb. So shouldn’t you be happy?
Trolling a little bit here, as I don’t know for sure if that’s how Amazon is approaching it, but: If you’re a Nazi or a Nazi wannabe, Tolkien would not approve of you.
Peter Jackson’s LOTR films do not represent the pinnacle of Western cinema. Don’t get me wrong, I like them and I own copies on Blu-Ray. But they are rather ‘overdone’ in my opinion, which has wrecked many lesser films and can make them hard to watch for someone who hasn’t read the books (I was very familiar with the books).
Also, what @everybody said.
When having a POC in Middle Earth is somehow less believable than talking trees or the line of people eligible for a throne remaining unbroken for centuries and still having only one heir available.
It’s fantasy! Get over yourself.
Well, in the original books, there were non-Whites, it’s just that they were fighting for Mordor because they felt wronged by Gondor.
@ryu238 #114295 And most of the mythologies that Tolkien based his works on made the same mistake of not realising that early european man (ie their ancestors) were actually brown. They assumed they were pale like themselves. Its a common misconception
OTOH, Tolkien had Elves interbred with humans to create Numenoreans, and he depicted Elves as pale-skinned and dark-haired.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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